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Bringing the blithe spirit of Pig Iron’s avant-gardism to Zoom is an admirable effort, but both the tumultuous nature of the times and the specificity of the technological platform must be more carefully considered.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2020

At Green Umbrella shows, you are as likely to encounter the molten avant-gardism of Chaya Czernowin or the desert-tinged soundscapes of Andrew McIntosh as you are an audience-friendly post-minimalist.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2017

"I was picking up where I'd left off in college, but without waving the banner of avant-gardism as fervently as I had back in the 1970s."

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2015

It would be misleading, in other words, to say that the label is bravely taking up the mantle of post-Coltrane avant-gardism.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2014

Paul had grasp, above all of the materials of music, and knew instinctively that astonishing art that fails to entertain is mere avant-gardism.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2012